Steam Lands In Fedora / RHEL RPM Fusion Repository

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Steam Lands In Fedora / RHEL RPM Fusion Repository

While Valve is mostly centered around supporting Ubuntu right now when it comes to their Linux initiatives, the Steam client and its games will generally work fine on other modern Linux distributions. For making it easier to run Steam on Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the binary package has entered the third-party RPM Fusion repository...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTQ5OTg

[DarkFoss]

Nice Hopefully it will work on Mageia.

[pete910]

Its been in Mageia's repos an hour after they changed the packaging licence


Edit: Its in the non-free if that is why you cant see it

[DarkFoss]

Awesome Thanks

[tomtomme]

late?

Why wasn?t it earlier in the Fedora repos?
Like Mageia also openSUSE has steam in its repos almost since it started on linux a year ago...

[torsionbar28]

Phoronix: Steam Lands In Fedora / RHEL RPM Fusion Repository

While Valve is mostly centered around supporting Ubuntu right now when it comes to their Linux initiatives, the Steam client and its games will generally work fine on other modern Linux distributions. For making it easier to run Steam on Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the binary package has entered the third-party RPM Fusion repository...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTQ5OTg

You've got some bad info it seems. The link provided explicitly states that this RPM will not work on RHEL. It is only for Fedora.

From the web link:

"Unfortunately it works only in Fedora, RHEL 6 glibc libraries are too ancient, even when using the Ubuntu Steam Runtime.
I will eventually add it to the RHEL 7 RPMFusion repository."

[Ericg]

Why wasn?t it earlier in the Fedora repos?
Like Mageia also openSUSE has steam in its repos almost since it started on linux a year ago...

Fedora itself can't ship it since its a non-free license and only comes as a binary package.

RPMFusion CAN ship it, but they didn't get a Review Request (meaning: someone packaged it, submitted it for review to make sure it meant QA) until the 3rd of this month.

See: https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2979

[r1348]

Fedora itself can't ship it since its a non-free license and only comes as a binary package.

RPMFusion CAN ship it, but they didn't get a Review Request (meaning: someone packaged it, submitted it for review to make sure it meant QA) until the 3rd of this month.

See: https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2979

Also, there already was an external repo for Fedora since more or less the launch of Steam on linux, so Fedora users already could install Steam without problems.

[twchambers]

So am I more likely to keep up to date using this repo instead of Spot's repo at fedorapeople?

[Ericg]

So am I more likely to keep up to date using this repo instead of Spot's repo at fedorapeople?

You could probably use either, but it wouldn't surprise me if Spot deprecated his package now that RPMFusion has picked it up